Excerpt from The Life of Denis M. Bradley, First Bishop of Manchester At the time of the death of Bishop Bradley, it was my intention to write his biography. All my priestly life had been spent in his service; six years had been passed in his household as his secretary and chancellor. Few had the opportunity of knowing him so well, and no one appreciated or loved him more than I. The work of gathering material for the Life had begun, when it pleased the Holy See to name me his successor in office. The tasks his dying hands relaxed fell to me to take up again, and this left little time for the compiling of a biography, however congenial that work would be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.